The Mushroom (1970 film)

{{Infobox film | name =The Mushroom | image = The Mushroom (film).png | director = Marc Simenon | writer = Alphonse Boudard<br />Marc Simenon | starring =Mylène Demongeot<br />Alida Valli | music = Zoo | cinematography = Marcel Combes | editing = | released = {{Film date|1970}} | language = French }} '''''The Mushroom''''' ({{langx|fr|Le champignon}}, {{langx|it|L'assassino colpisce all'alba}}, also known as ''The Murderer Strikes at Dawn'', ''The Killer Strikes at Dawn'' and ''L’assassin frappe à l’aube'') is a 1970 French-Italian crime film written and directed by Marc Simenon.<ref name="70-79 a-l">{{cite book|author1=Roberto Chiti |author2=Roberto Poppi |author3=Enrico Lancia |title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film|publisher=Gremese, 1991|isbn=8876059350}}</ref><ref name=Mereghetti>{{cite book|last=Paolo Mereghetti|title=Il Mereghetti|publisher=B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010|isbn=8860736269}}</ref>

==Plot == A physician, growing distant from his workaholic wife, befriends an artist. After a night spent drinking and taking hallucinogenic mushroom with the artist, the physician discovers that his wife had died, and begins to question what took place.<ref>{{Citation|title=The Mushroom (1970) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065536/plotsummary|access-date=2021-03-12}}</ref>

== Cast ==

* Mylène Demongeot as Anne Calder * Alida Valli as Linda Benson * Jean-Claude Bouillon as Éric Calder * Catherine Allégret as Jeannette * Philippe Monnet as Gaëtan * Jean Claudio as Kogan * Georges Géret as Kurt * François Simon as Le Juge

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|65536}}

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